Automobile-lamp.



W. S. HAMM.

AUTOMOBILE LAMP.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 2,1912.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

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"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIALI S. HAlyIM, OF HUBBARD WOODS, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE ADAMS &

WES'ILAKE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

AUTOMOBILE-LAMP.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM S. HAMM, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Hubbard Woods, county of Cook, and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AutomobileLamps, ofwhich the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The invention relates to lamps especially adapted for use onautomobiles; a side lamp being shown for the purpose of exemplifying it.

The objects of the invention are to provide an improved form of mountingthe lamp, and improved means for securing access to its interior; and itconsists broadly in mounting the bulb socket or burner upon a platewhich may form a door for the lamp body and which may be provided with abracket-engaging socket, or may be made integral with the bracket.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a detail rear elevation of thelamp showing a portion of the bracket; Fig. 2 is a detail plan sectionon the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a similar view showing a modifiedform of construction; and Fig. 4 is a detail of the supporting bracketshown in Fig. 3.

The body 10 of the lamp may be of any desired form and may be providedwith an oil font 11. In one of the walls, as shown at the back of thebody 10, there is an aperture 12, preferably circular and surrounded bya frame 13 provided with hinge lugs or other suitable means ofattachment. A plate 14 is fitted to the frame 13 and secured thereto bymeans of hinge lugs 15, 16, and pintles 17 18, or by such otherfastening devices as may be preferred. As shown, either of the pintles17, 18, may be withdrawn and either may be used as the pivot upon whichthe lamp body may swing.

In the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the plate 14 isintegral with the bracket 19 by which the lamp is supported. The bulbsocket 20 may be attached to the plate 14 in any desired manner, and thewires 21, 22, for supplying the bulb with current are led to the lampthrough a channel formed in the bracket, as shown.

In the construction illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4, the plate 14 isprovided with a loop 23 for receiving the upper end 24 of theSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 2, 1912.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914:.

Serial No. 694,607.

bracket, a binding screw 25 looking these parts together. When thisconstruction is followed the wires 21, 22, lead to terminal plates 26,27, secured to and insulated from the end portion 24 of the bracket, andbeing exposed through its side face, and being so disposed as to makecontact with terminals 28, 29, of the socket 20, which in practiceshould be spring-advanced.

The inner walls of the frame 18 are preferably beveled, as shown at 30,the side edges of the plate 14 being correspondingly formed, thusproviding a hearing which relieves the pintles 17, 18, in a measure ofthe strain that would otherwise fall upon them.

Access is gained to the interior of the lamp by removing one of thepintles 17 18, and swinging the lamp body upon the other as a pivot.

While the invention is shown in connection with an incandescent bulb,other suitable illuminating devices may be used, the illuminating agentbeing conveyed to the translating device through the bracket.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a lamp, in combination, a body having anaperture, a plate hinged to the body and covering the aperture, abracket for supporting the lamp and being attached to the plate, asocket for an incandescent bulb mounted on the plate, and an electriccircuit extending through the bracket and plate to the socket.

2. In combination, a bracket arm having a laterally facing plateprovided at its side margins with vertically apertured lugs, a lamp bodyhaving an aperture for fitting upon the plate, vertically apertured lugsat each side of the aperture of the body adapted to mate with the lugsof the plate, and pins removably located in the apertures of thecooperating lugs of the body and plate.

3. In combination, a lamp bracket having a pair of parallel tubularhinge cars, a lamp body having a rearward opening and tubular hinge earsflanking the opening and complementary to the hinge ears of the bracket,and hinge pins connecting cooperating hinge ears.

WVILLIAM S. HAMM.

Witnesses:

G. L. WALTER, W. G. PORTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C.

